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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has given a lengthy interview providing his thoughts on the state of the U.S. election campaign, the populist movement, and his journey into it. Speaking to Hearts of Oak podcast host Peter Mcilvenna, Kassam charted his journey from a youthful supporter of the Bill Clinton-like Tony Blair to a seasoned populist and his experiences with “locomotives of populism” like Donald Trump, Stephen K. Bannon, and Nigel Farage.

On the elections, Kassam said he senses that “we are on a winning course right now… despite [Trump’s] campaign leadership, not because of his campaign leadership.” He explained the turnaround is due in part to the fact that MAGA stalwarts such as Corey Lewandowski have been brought on board and given a greater role relative to the likes of Chris LaCivita, who was steering the campaign onto the rocks after the Democrats ousted Joe Biden in favor of Kamala Harris.

Harris herself is also given credit for the change in fortunes, with the public finding her more unlikeable the more they see of her: “She’s become almost as unpopular as Hillary Clinton—and I say ‘almost’ because America got to know Hillary Clinton really well for decades and decades. If they got to know Kamala as well as Hillary, she would be half as popular, if that,” he said. “She is just a fundamentally unlikeable person.”

PEOPLE POWER.

Speaking to imprisoned War Room host Stephen K. Bannon, a longtime friend and collaborator, Kassam argued that the great strength of the former White House chief strategist’s following is that it is “people-led.”

“He’s just the guy who’s conducting the orchestra; the musicians are the ordinary Americans out there… who are doing the heavy lifting in the communities every day, who are building these families and teaching their kids the right values,” he explained.

The fact Bannon has not been released already under the First Step Act, Kassam continued, is proof that the Democrats and their allies have gone beyond “weaponization” of the legal system, as they are “now breaking the law… to keep this man detained unlawfully.”

“It’s so far beyond a disgrace that I pray to God that, when Trump gets back in the White House, that there isn’t this 2016 mentality of, ‘We can reform some of these things; if we just send some nice Bush-era conservatives into these departments…’ This is like the Civil Service in the UK; they’re not interested in being reformed. You have to just get rid of them; you have to fire them,” he stressed.

However, Kassam’s number one piece of advice to the conservative movement is to take on Citizens United and “get big money out of politics.”

“The real threat to democracy is not Donald Trump or anything like that, it’s Corporate America,” he said.

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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has given a lengthy interview providing his thoughts on the state of the U.S. election campaign, the populist movement, and his journey into it. Speaking to Hearts of Oak podcast host Peter Mcilvenna, Kassam charted his journey from a youthful supporter of the Bill Clinton-like Tony Blair to a seasoned populist and his experiences with “locomotives of populism” like Donald Trump, Stephen K. Bannon, and Nigel Farage.

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